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My primary datapoint on SAP is that Google has a class of high memory instances designed for SAP: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/memory-optimized-machine
by phamilton 4y ago
My primary datapoint on SAP is that Google has a class of high memory instances designed for SAP: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/memory-optimized-machines#m2_machine_types https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/memory-optimized-machi...
The come in ~6TB and ~12TB.
Somehow, that tells so much about SAP and the institutions that depend on it.
- xxpor 4y agoAs does AWS. Of course, they have to be Certified (TM). OTOH, the general principle of "just have a giant in memory DB" isn't actually that crazy. In fact, a lot of the complex distributed data storage systems that a lot of services use might just be better off with a system like it. See also: Stack Overflow.